maintint
\mɛ̃.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“maintint” is uncommon French (frequency #60,186 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,186
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de maintenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maintint · maintint · French
maintint · rank #60,186 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,186
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malvenu
Nearest frequency peer: malvenu (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « maintint »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mada
mada
39,818 corpus weight
- magistraux
magistraux
39,817 corpus weight
- maintint
maintint
39,815 corpus weight
- malvenu
malvenu
39,814 corpus weight
- mander
mander
39,813 corpus weight
- Maputo
Maputo
39,812 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maintint » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maintint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ̃.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maintint » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maintint is uncommon French at frequency #60,186 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ̃.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de maintenir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for maintint in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is maintint, spelled M-A-I-N-T-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de maintenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how maintint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il posa sur la table le document et le maintint déplié.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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